Saumen Hajra, Subrata Maity, Ramkrishna Maity
Jul 9, 2015
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Abstract
An efficient strategy for the synthesis of 3-(3-indolyl)-oxindole-3-methanol has been developed to achieve a Lewis acid catalyzed, highly regioselective ring opening of spiro-epoxyoxindoles with indoles. The method is used for the gram-scale formal total synthesis of (±)-gliocladin C.